Together with Impact Hub, the Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation is exploring employment as a factor of social participation.

The “beyond (un)employment” program aims at taking a deep dive exploration of the issue with 5 collaborative circles of 20 experts each (entrepreneurs, students, academics, social entrepreneurs, etc.) organised and hosted in 5 international Impact Hubs (Impact Hub Florence, Impact Hub Birmingham, Impact Hub Moscow, Impact Hub Zagreb, Impact Hub Yerevan). In the past few months the expert circles have worked together to understand the reasons, influencing factors, and obstacles involved in the unemployment challenge. At the end of this phase, each team will develop specific solutions, and in a second project phase (from 2018 onwards), the developed solutions will be implemented locally and scaled wherever possible. This approach is expected to bring about new partnerships and try out new collaborations. Ultimately, a transsectoral and transnational network of experts and change-makers will strengthen Europe’s civil society in the long term.